The intention is to introduce you to the people who have been carving their own path...with no care for what anybody thinks.

We try not to post things that are still for sale but sometimes post things that are not easily available. If you like what you hear, then find these people and tell them how great they are.

Better still, tell them and then seek out their new releases and buy them. We add links, when they are reliable and active, so that you can keep track if you so wish.

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Bracingly strange cassette first released in 1980 by Eisengrau, a West Berlin clothing shop/record label run by Blixa Bargeld and members of Mania D that documented the early days of that influential punk/noise/industrial scene. In 1999, the tape was reissued as a vinyl LP by Weltklasse, though I cannot tell how "official" that version is. You probably know Butzmann from the first (and best) lineup of Din a Testbild and from the other albums of electronic insanity he's foisted upon unworthy ears over the years, or even from that "Asperado a-Go-Go" compilation LP I posted last week. But even if you only know his recent, stellar LP on PAN, this album will demonstrate that Butzmann was also that bizarre 35 years ago. As far as I can tell, this is the only appearance of Mr. Nagana, so I can't tell you anything more about him.